The repeated recoil from such ammunition fired on a full-auto setting would have quickly shaken to pieces any firearm light enough ... his comprehensive book AK-47: The Weapon That Changed the ...

The AK-47 is the deadliest weapon ever built ... within 300 meters that could bring a blaze of bullets (with ammunition light enough that soldiers could carry a lot of it). An Iraqi security ...

It was a weapon: a strange-looking rifle ... topping it off with a lampshade. The 'Kalashnikov AK-47 Table Light' could be yours for just £1,360. * In 2004, Playboy placed the AK-47 fourth ...

One of the first true assault rifles, the AK-47, or Kalashnikov, was designed for soldiers who have to endure terrible conditions on the battlefield: It's light ... of a weapon, and one of ...

Sure. In the mid-1950s, the Danish military proposed its “own AK-47” as the main weapon for NATO troops. It was called the Madsen LAR (light automatic rifle). It had a similar operating ...

Before the AK-47 ... Kalashnikov’s weapon borrowed the small-capacity 25-round magazine from the most widely used pistol at that time, the Degtyarev light machine gun, and was given a front ...

Russian general, inventor, Mikhail Timofeyevich Kalashnikov poses with a Kalashnikov assault rifle. The AK-47 assault rifle is a widely recognised weapon known for its simplicity, reliability, and ...